The Wire and M.I.A.

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M.I.A. has done a cover of HBO's The Wire's opening theme song.





The opening theme is "Way Down in the Hole", a gospel-blues inspired song originally written by Tom Waits for his 1987 album Franks Wild Years. Each season uses a different recording of it against a different opening sequence. Read more here.